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Poor Mental Health for Sale!

By AmbroseVoxPublished 3 years ago 1 min read

Welcome to this house of cheats,

our prices are never beat!

For you sir a surprising lack of sleep,

I offer it to you cheap;

no more than a measly five

and I’ll throw in a failure of drive!

There you have it and sold

but I just took this off hold;

a bounty of ceaseless worry

that’ll leave your nerves a slurry!

It’s yours for an extra ten,

just sign here with my pen!

But what’s this upon my stage,

just a burning incandescent rage!

For twenty I guarantee you’ll stay pissed,

even after a lover’s kiss!

Ah but before you trundle,

I’ve got right here a bundle;

a romantic heart so broken,

it’ll make all your feelings oaken.

Thirty and five is my tally,

but to ward off any rally,

here’s a crappy job filled with stress,

with pay so good you can’t dream of less,

for forty I can throw in a crappy boss;

are the i’s all dotted and the t’s crossed?

Now it is my pleasure,

to introduce this lovely treasure:

one whopping sensation of being alone,

worse than you have ever known;

with such a delightfully harmful vise,

can you really give it a price?

I’m just hitting my prime;

just look at those numbers climb!

And I know you can afford all of it

even if you’d rather leave and quit;

c’mon we’ve got your mental health to kill

so just write your name on the fucking bill.

performance poetry

About the Creator

AmbroseVox

Creative writing is an opportunity to set goals and challenges for yourself; it is the joy of the whole experience for me!

I publish work across several platforms, join my Discord server if you want to find more: https://discord.gg/EXD6eYCP

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